Ambassador Armand Kirakossian was not exaggerating when he said in his speech at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, “that the physical survival of the population of Artsakh and its protection from mass atrocities are the responsibility of Artsakh authorities.”

William Weiner, President of the “Manora” Jewish Cultural Foundation of Armenia, recently published an opinion piece in the Times of Israel in which he criticizes the abundance of what he calls Turkish- and Azeri-sponsored propaganda against Armenia and Armenian in Jewish news media around the world.

One hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire in its dying throws undertook a systematic effort to exterminate the Armenian and Assyrian people. They did so through a campaign of mass killing and displacement which saw 1.5 million Armenians killed and millions more forced to flee from their ancestral homes.

Religious extremism has been in the forefront of the news lately because of the unfolding events in the Middle East and the failure of peace initiatives in the region. Armenians in the Middle East have not been immune from the devastation that has engulfed major cities, towns, and other smaller isolated communities.

Hurriyet Daily News published an op-ed on Wednesday by US Ambassador to Turkey Jon Bass, entitled “Martin Luther King Jr. and Hrant Dink: They had a dream,” in which the envoy praises both men for advocating for equal rights

She crushed the cigarette butt with her heel in the bitter wind outside Srebrenica’s town hall and said “never, I shall never forgive him. His apology is not even worth the little finger on my son’s dead body.”

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, when civilized humanity stands together with Armenia and the Armenian people, honors the memory of one and a half million innocent victims, killed in the Ottoman Empire, Turkish-Azerbaijani propaganda has become more aggressive.